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By Segun Adewole<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Governor of Borno State has discovered \u201c650 ghost households\u201d when he visited a camp of Internally Displaced Persons in Borno State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zulum\u2019s visit to the camp located at Mohammed Goni College of Islamic Legal Studies in Maiduguri, the state capital, was a move to put a stop to rampant cases of dubious residents pretending to be displaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A statement issued on the Facebook page of the Governor revealed that the fake IDPs spend day times at the camp when food is being shared, and towards the night they return to their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The statement read, \u201cAround midnight on Sunday, Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum showed up at Mohammed Goni College of Islamic Legal Studies in Maiduguri, where internally displaced persons from Abadam local government area of northern Borno were being camped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cZulum immediately sealed entrance and supervise a headcount to identify actual IDPs, in order to put a stop to rampant cases of dubious residents pretending to be displaced, who spend day times at IDP camps to share food meant for IDPs, and towards the night, they return to their homes to sleep, with some of benefiting from other means through which the state distributes food to vulnerable non IDPs in communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGovernor Zulum\u2019s mission, which ended past 1am, discovered that out of 1,000 households in the records of humanitarian officials, 650 households were ghosts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c450 households were found to be real IDPs after Zulum\u2019s midnight headcount which was conducted by the governor alongside an official of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Air Commodore M. T. Abdullahi, and two commissioners (Agriculture, and Local Government and Emirate Affairs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn humanitarian system, a household normally consist of at least six persons who are either related through families, or chosen to stay together for the purpose of receiving household aids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOfficials who were part of the midnight headcount said Governor Zulum was not averse to approving support for any citizen who may be vulnerably in need of food since there is a committee doing that, however, the Governor is vehemently opposed to some residents making dubious claims in other to take what is meant for IDPs while also benefiting from other existing welfare activities that target non IDPs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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